27 December 2008
An early start to Kathmandu. We were waved off by those staying behind and started our 6 hour bus ride. The road was extremely bumpy and we took on some locals to fill the few empty seats on our bus.
We stopped a couple of times along the road for breakfast and lunch. I got some sleep and thank goodness for an inflatable pillow which at least stopped my head being constantly rammed into the window.
We made it into Kathmandu, which we now realize how big it is, from entering the outside, i took approximately another 25 minutes to make it to the bus stand and into the fray of “you want hotel”, “you want taxi”. We strapped on our bags and headed to the Kathmandu Guest House and went straight to our room to do the most important thing sort out the dirty washing as we have absolutely no clean clothes. After dropping off the laundry and sorting out some additional accommodation and wandering through Thamel, which seems a lot quieter than when we were here a month ago.
We caught up for dinner with those remaining and had a few drinks to celebrate the fact that we did the whole trek, no mean feat.
We attempted to party hard but early nights seem to now be the trend, so we all retired early again. A hard partying lot we are.